I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.

People don't get a chance to think, "Why am I a consumer?" Because the decisions come at them so fast and furiously, they're not [even] given time to think, I am a consumer.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.